Growing up during the Cold War, I remember the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. In primary school we were taught to… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
“There is no monopoly of common sense On either side of the political fence We share the same biology Regardless of ideology… — Sting Copy Share Image
That is potentially putting us all in the target hairs now is the reactivation of a new nuclear arms race. This arms… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“The cold war was over, but all the little games persisted. It was a good thing those puppets in the Middle East… — Magnus Flyte Copy Share Image
The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society… — William Greider Copy Share Image
In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances… — Kevin Gutzman Copy Share Image
A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“Jung recognized that society advances only slowly, through the gradual integration of new insights gleaned through the often unrecorded work of individuals,… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“The answer was Stellar Wind. The NSA would eavesdrop freely against Americans and aliens in the United States without probable cause or… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“The American embassy in Moscow is situated at No. 8 Bolshoy Deviatinsky Pereulok in a towering glass and stone edifice that took… — Matt Fulton Copy Share Image
“When Communism fell in 1989, the temptation for Western commentators to gloat triumphantly proved irresistible. This, it was declared, marked the end… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Authoritarian Communism is, and should be, forever tainted by those real-world laboratories. But what of the contemporary crusade to liberate world markets?… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
We are not living in the same world we were immediately after the Cold War, when there seemed to be a greater… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
“For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its… — Philip Short Copy Share Image
Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all… — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War,… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Very few people know that there is a whole school of historians that have existed in the United States from the 1940s… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the… — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the… — George Lee Butler Copy Share Image
The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The fact that the 1984 cold war film 'Red Dawn' has been remade is more than just another sign of Hollywood declining… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Putin wants nothing less than to return Russia to the center of global politics by challenging the primacy that the United States… — Ivo Daalder Copy Share Image
The reliability of the United States was not a serious problem during the Cold War, because the Soviet threat provided a powerful… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
The Cold War's end pushed disarmament down most leaders' agendas. It's a sophisticated issue, which I think is one reason why it… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . .… — James E. Webb Copy Share Image
![“There is no monopoly of common sense On either side of the political fence We share the same biology Regardless of ideology Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too [...] There's no such thing as a winnable war It's a lie we don't believe anymore ..." ( The Russians )” quote by Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e6/sting-3009_cold-war_there-is-no-monopoly-of-common-sense-on_1475077.jpg)
![“Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .” quote by George Lee Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a9/george-lee-butler-54304_capability_mammoth-organizations-these-ponderous-pr_2898891.jpg)
![“To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.” quote by J. William Fulbright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48f/j-william-fulbright-7682_bay-of-pigs_to-give-the-bay-of-pigs-invasion-of-cuba_203573.png)
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